For his entire life, Prince Thadeous (Danny McBride) has been overshadowed by his older brother, the handsome and heroic Fabious (James Franco). He’s held in little esteem by his father King Tallious (Charles Dance). Never to become king, he squanders his time getting stoned and causing trouble, joined by his loyal servant Courtney (Rasmus Hardiker). After Fabious’s bride-to-be Belladonna (Zooey Deschanel) is kidnapped by the evil wizard Leezar (Justin Theroux), Thadeous is ordered by King Tallious to join Fabious on his quest to rescue her, or face exile. Woefully unprepared for the dangers of the journey, Thadeous and Courtney are more of a hindrance to Fabious than an asset as they race to get to Leezar before the wizard sleeps with Belladonna in a ritual to birth an all-powerful dragon. Along the way, they are joined by the mysterious and beautiful Isabel (Natalie Portman), who seeks Leezar herself, aiming to exact revenge for the death of her family.

The film “Limitless” begins with struggling fiction writer Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) having a chance encounter with Vernon (Johnny Whitworth), his former brother-in-law and a onetime coke dealer who now claims to be a pharmaceutical consultant. Wanting to help Eddie with his writer’s block, Vernon gives him a sample unregulated drug called NZT, which allows its users to take advantage of 100 percent of their brain. Popping the pill, Eddie goes from average Joe to Good Will Hunting in thirty seconds, finishing his novel and then setting his sights on amassing a great fortune in the stock market, a meteoric rise that puts him on the radar of Carl Van Loon (Robert De Niro), a titan of the energy industry who wants to utilize Eddie’s genius thinking to aid in a very difficult merger with another industry giant. Along the way, Eddie must smooth things over with his on-again/off-again girlfriend Lindy (Abbie Cornish), deal with Gennady (Andrew Howard) the Russian gangster who provided him with start-up capital for his fortune, and figure out he’s going to get his next fix of NZT when his supply starts running low.